Twinkling lights or turning down the dimmer switch? Are there two patterns of extinction debt in fragmented landscapes?

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 303-309

  Ford, Hugh A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Interspecific competition; Limiting resources; Woodland birds

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EXTINCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LANDSCAPE; LIGHT EFFECT; POPULATION DECLINE; SUBPOPULATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 84861425048     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PC110303     Document Type: Review

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